Best David Sais Podcasts (2025)

Today we take a deep dive into the world of PostgreSQL extensions, featuring our conversation with Heikki Linnakangas, co-founder of Neon, an expert Postgres hacker, and contributor to pgvector. Heikki shares the fascinating story of how Neon was born in 2021, driven by the vision of creating an open-source platform akin to Aurora Serverless. He de…

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Survivor 47 Recap: The Breakup (But Not Dating) 1:29:14

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The gurus recap the boot of the first jury member of Survivor 47.

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Survivor 47 Recap - Tiyana Your Way Out 1:14:20

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Dave and Louis highlight last weeks final 13 boot before diving into an electric final 12 episode.

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S3E1: Francesco Tisiot, Field CTO Aiven 31:46

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Joining Aiven in 2021, Francesco Tisiot works as a Field CTO and AI Lead. He serves as a technical advisor to clients and prospects, helping to meet their needs without the focus on sales, acting as a 'rented' CTO to provide expert guidance. Join us as we dive into Francesco's insightful perspectives on the Postgres community, where he challenges t…

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Survivor 47 Ep 5 Recap - Anikas Worth of Free Advice 1:30:07

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The gurus talk through a big boot in Survivor 47 and preview each castaways' winner equity heading into the merge.

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Survivor 47 Recap: That's Not It Rome 1:03:31

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The gurus break down another exciting episode of Survivor 47.

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Survivor 47 Episode 3 Recap: Liberation From Aysha 1:09:11

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The gurus are back to talk about the 3rd episode of Survivor 47

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Survivor 47 Ep 2 Recap: TK-O 1:07:13

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The gurus break down the second boot of Survivor 47.

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Survivor 47 Ep 1 Reacp - Box in a Box in a Box 1:08:09

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The gurus are back recapping the premiere of Survivor 47.

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Survivor 47 Blind Draft and Cast Assessment 1:11:40

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The gurus return to break down the cast of season 47 of Survivor US.

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S2E10: DJ Patil and Ray Lane, GreatPoint Ventures 44:18

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Today we’re joined by Ray Lane and DJ Patil from GreatPoint Ventures. Ray, known for his pivotal role at Oracle during its turnaround, shares his journey from the US Army to top tech positions and eventually co-founding GreatPoint Ventures, where he supports entrepreneurs. DJ Patil – investor, entrepreneur, and former U.S. Chief Data Scientist – jo…

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Survivor 46 Finale Recap 1:15:30

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The gurus put a bow on the 46th season of Survivor

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S2E9: Sai Srirampur, PeerDB 41:37

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Sai Srirampur is the co-founder of PeerDB and a veteran Postgres Solutions Engineer with experience at Citus Data and Microsoft. He has been at the forefront of optimizing and scaling Postgres for large data workloads and is now spearheading innovation in data movement and replication with PeerDB. In this episode, we'll discuss the challenges of tu…

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S2E8: Melanie Plageman, Microsoft 36:55

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In this episode, we talk Postgres committer Melanie Plagemean about her involvement with @PGConfdev, improvements to vacuum scheduling and auto vacuum configuration, the logical replication of DDL, and platforms such as CNCF and Kubernetes integrating with Postgres. Links mentioned: PGConf.dev YouTube – CMU Database Group Path To Citus Con Podcast …

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S2E7: Bharath Rupireddy, AWS 30:08

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Bharath Rupireddy has carved a niche for himself in the Postgres community since he began using the database system back in 2020. From his start at EnterpriseDB to making strides at Microsoft, and now contributing to the AWS open-source project, Bharath is entrenched in the inner workings of Postgres development. He has worked in many areas of Post…

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Survivor 46 F7 Recap and F6/Finale Preview 1:11:07

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Dave and Louis recap the final 7 and rip through all possible scenarios for the endgame of Survivor 46.

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S2E6: Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek, EDB 37:09

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As the podcast host of The Builders, member of Postgres Women, and Staff Engineer at EDB, Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek is passionate to see where this space will take us. We kick off Season 2 with Gülçin as she shares her journey in the tech industry, CloudNativePG, the impact of AI on Postgres, and the representation of women in the Postgres community.…

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Survivor 46 Recap: I’M PISSED 1:00:02

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Dave and Louis break down another great postmerge episode of Survivor 46.

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S2E5: Jelte Fennema-Nio, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft 31:40

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Alongside his peers studying Systems Network Engineering, Jelte Fennema-Nio unearthed a security vulnerability within the framework of Postgres. Since then, Jelte joined the world of cybersecurity and network engineering. He is currently Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft working on Citus/ Postgres/ PgBouncer. In this episode we explore: Fork…

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Survivor 46 Recap: The Hunter Becomes the Hunted 57:52

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Louis and Dave break down a suspenseful final 9 Foote of Survivor 46.

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S2E4: Amit Kapila, Fujitsu India 34:22

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Amit Kapila is a PostgreSQL Committer and a Senior Director at Fujitsu India. Amit joins the show to share his contributions to logical replication enhancements (achieving highly available systems), his involvement in the PostgreSQL community, and his perspective on contributions from tech giants in advancing PostgreSQL features. In this episode we…

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Survivor Recap: The Mad Scientist 1:04:12

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Louis and Dave talk through an eventful final 10 episode of Survivor 46.

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S2E3: David Wheeler, Principal Architect, Tembo 38:35

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As Principal Architect at Tembo and the creator of PGXN, David Wheeler is a seminal figure in the Postgres world. Join us as we discuss David's tenure at The New York Times, his influential projects like Bricolage and pgTAP, and the game-changing database change management system, Sqitch. In this episode we explore: David Wheeler's transition from …

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Survivor Recap: Q, Q , and more Q 1:07:21

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Louis and Dave talk about Q, the double boot episode, and Q.

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S2E2: Denis Magda, Director of Developer Relations, Yugabyte 48:23

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Denis Magda is the mastermind behind the innovative extension PgCompute and a pivotal figure in the world of Postgres development. With over a decade and a half of experience, Denis cut his teeth on Postgres during its use in high-traffic social networking projects in Eastern Europe and has continued to push the envelope at Yugabyte as the head of …

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Survivor Recap: Stockholm Syndrome 1:03:49

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Louis and Dave talk Mergatory on this week’s Survivor 46 recap

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S2E1: Andrew Atkinson, Software Engineer and Author 35:32

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Andrew Atkinson is a Software Engineer who specializes in building high-performance web applications using PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails. He wrote the book ‘High-Performance PostgreSQL for Rails’, published by Pragmatic Programmers in 2024. Our discussion with Andrew spans the technical challenges of sharding and the concurrent evolution of Rails an…